The birds that chirp before flying

The sun and the moon And the stars and the sky The laughter that bursts In the birds that chirp before flying The water that brings A saviour to life After looking down At the flowers now blooming The essence, the ingress Seeps through the room’s open window The day sees the sun Shining brightly […]

Travails with a conscience

It came from far away And nestled nearer home All the while beside me From birth to when I’d grown My travails with a conscience lay Still active – I had known It came from far away – Perched by my very own And every time I saw her She looked peaceful – Like the […]

Loss

Loss Oh, God, What does it mean? Am I alone Yet near, beside The one I thought I’d have forever – Experiences Shared together Now you’ve left For better scenes Still nothing, no-one Comes between The rose and orchard We grew when The garden bloomed – The scent would spend It’s time in what Became […]

Camellia

He walked amongst the many and came across the one – the one who made him feel like he was walking on a cloud. Wearing Leopard-spotted ‘happy shoes’ she was a slim little thing, five foot six at most, wearing black, skin-tight yoga pants that hugged her legs, and a silky beige shirt hanging out over her […]

Cosmotic

Once again the weekend comes and I share my poetry with you here. Cosmofunnel has been a source of pleasure for me, having reached the heady heights of over 700 viewings on occasion (God knows how). These four poems have been viewed and commented on by fewer people but amongst them is my favourite of […]

Into the Cosmo

Cosmofunnel continues to surprise. There’s the good, the bad and the indifferent. Go check it out here at cosmofunnel.com and see what you think. You might want to start with a few offerings from yours truly. For your reading pleasure (or pain), I list them here. Go on, knock yourself out. Or better still, enjoy […]

changing life’s meaning

Every time I find the meaning of life they change it. That’s the title of Daniel Klein’s book, published a couple of years ago now but one I return to whenever I’m thinking too far ahead of the here and now. You see, Klein believes that we should all be more like Snookers, his dog, […]

Cosmofunnel V – thoughts

What is it they say? It never rains in Southern California? Well, I’m here to tell you the same’s true of the Gold Coast, on the south-east coast of Queensland. They say it’s beautiful one day, perfect the next. I think it’s just bone-dry Except that the farmers end up in drought as 80% of […]